Officially the practice is banned, but many poor families rely on the money their children earn. Of the nation's three million child labourers, aged between five and 17, 70 per cent of them are engaging in activities that endanger their lives.

Child slavery is an ongoing problem in Uzbekistan's cotton industry. Around 90 per cent of Uzbek cotton is harvested by hand with approximately half of all cotton picked by state-sponsored forced child labor. Human rights groups estimate that hundreds of

Nike and many other large brand name companies (Apple, Hershey's, Starbucks, etc.) have given worthy evidence that they are harborers of unpaid child labor. This is SLAVERY. We have created this petition to boycott Nike and their products until they

Over 9 million children are trapped in the worst forms of child labour living in slavery-like conditions, separated from their families or exposed to serious danger and illness of the country, according to an estimate by Save the Children Sweden -Denmark.

Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified treaty in human history. Despite the good will of the signatory nations the sad truth is that the basic rights of children are still not universally recognised...